Flux Food
John Chick, American, 1944 - 2013
1969
Seven-compartment clear plastic box with label on lid containing woodland flora (pinecone, wood, birch bark, seed pods, lichen, fungus)
Overall: 3 11/16 × 4 5/8 × 1 in. (9.3 × 11.7 × 2.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Friedman Family
GM.986.80.28
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Fluxus
Research Area
Fluxus
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, on label: FLUX / FOOD / by / JOHN CHICK
Course History
Anthropology 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Charis Boke, Summer 2024
First Year Student Enrichment Program, Rachel Obbard, Summer 2024
Exhibition History
"Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life" Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 16-August 7, 2011; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York, September 9-December 3, 2011; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 25-May 20 2012, check list number 90.
Fluxus 25 Years, Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, Massachusetts, November 7, 1987-January 3, 1988.
From the Field: Tracing Foodways Through Art, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 8-November 3, 2024.
Publication History
Dick Higgins, Fluxus 25 Years, Williamstown, Massachusetts: President and Trustees of Williams College, 1987.
Jacquelynn Baas, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, p. 118, checklist no. 90.
Provenance
Friedman Family; given to present collection, 1986.
Catalogue Raisonne
J. Hendricks, Fluxus Codex, New York, 1988, p. 223-224. no. 85.
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